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Week 4 - Hanbok

October 14th, 2017

I almost late for this session (thankfully I didn’t lol). After had a year end party (annual party from my course ; we celebrating the final project / dissertation before the graduation basically) and went home at 6am, I overslept until noon ish and I have to rush preparing myself (was about to not take shower but I’m not going to do that because of this week’s activity LOL).

So yeah, this week we learned about the History of Hanbok or traditional clothes from South Korea with Dr. Jungtaek Lee (Dept. of the History of Art and Archeology, SOAS). The most interesting part of this lesson is finally I get to know what are the differences for each hanbok that resembles the class and the occasion (been wondering about this since ages ago). Also, the transition between hanbok in 15th century to nowadays; plus I get to see how this traditional clothes manage to collaborate with modern clothes and make it suitable to not just in special occasion but also for daily clothes (the reason why I decided to work on the design your own Hanbok for this week’s homework). During this week, I learn and gain another interest related with Korean traditional clothes, which is the motives and the printing on the clothes ; include the meaning behind the colours (never thought that they actually have certain meaning for each picture and each colour, and that is super awesome!)

This week activity excites me the most because I can try on Hanbok (finally!). I took the most pictures on this week (probably the upcoming week too!)like I mentioned before, I have my own hanbok at home from my friend who lives in Korea but last time I wear it was when I was 90kgs; and now’s my chance to wear it again with my new weight (been lost almost 30kgs now heh). But again, I’m a bit worried because I’m still considerably big and tall, I don’t know if I could find any hanbok that fits on my body and height. Since I'm on the second batch to get the Hanbok (and there’s barely any choice) I just pick the one that looks big enough and change with it straight away. Turns out I took the most complicated & special one (LOL!). I ended up wearing a wedding dress in Hanbok version. There’s 5 layers of it (plus my shirt under because I’m too lazy to take it off) and I got the wig like those lady you can see on the royal family (you’ll see what I mean by that by watching the video). It was great fun though! Except it was so hot but other than that I’m glad that I pick that one; probably the most extravagant clothes that I’d ever wear throughout my whole life (except my real wedding that I don’t know when).

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